Japanese return as Thai politics reverts to normal

Published: 28 Jan 2013 at 00.00
Newspaper section: Business

Japanese visitors and chartered flights from Japan have fully recovered after Thailand's political situation stabilised.

Tourist groups from Japan with 60-300 members each, particularly students who are normally very sensitive, have already been back to the Thai tourism market since 2012, said Anake Srishevachart, president of the Thai-Japan Tourist Association.

The move showed their confidence in Thailand, he added.

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boons
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Discussion 2 : 28 Jan 2013 at 18.252
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Oh please. This is pure political spin. This rather absurd statement from the TAT makes the claim that Japanese tourism was down since 2008 due to political instability.

Where does that claim come from? Were surveys conducted among Japanese tourists in which they claimed they were afraid to come to Thailand?

Are we really to believe that the memory of the brief airport shutdown in 2008 resulted in a depressed level of Japanese tourists years later in 2011? But (of course) not the more recent memory of redshirt violence?

2008 also happens to be the year of the global financial collapse, from markets have just now returned. Pleas
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Discussion 1 : 28 Jan 2013 at 15.111
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Do you understand this Mr. Abhisit !?
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